ON ANGLING. $3 



be taken a good depth, then strike with a 

 smart stroke, directly contrary to the course 

 the pike appears to take, and govern him 

 with a tight line, for though the hooks are 

 so much larger and stronger, than that for 

 trolling, yet having hold of the jaws of the 

 pike, which are very hard and bony, he will 

 sometimes escape. It will be prudent to 

 make use of the landing net, if the pike is 

 large, for it is not only a mark of an inex- 

 perienced angler, to throw the fish out by a 

 strong exertion, but it will certainly strain 

 the sockets of your rod. A tin bait-pan 

 (that will hold about a gallon) with the top 

 punched full of small holes to admit the air, 

 will be necefsary to carry your baits, which 

 in hot weather must have fresh water very 

 often. This method of angling for pike is 

 the most ancient of any, and is now only 

 practised by those who have neither skill or 

 addrefs to pursue the other. It requires 

 great patience, lias little exercise, and incon- 

 venient on account of the live baits that are 

 carried from place to place, and has given 

 a decided superiority to the dead snap. 



